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Past Programs
Nightclubbing—Greatest Hits, 1975–1980
Media artists Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong will screen and discuss selections from their cable-TV show, Nightclubbing, which aired from 1975 to 1980.
Book Signing: Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds, music journalist and author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (Penguin, 2006), will discuss New York City during the postpunk era and the crossover synergy between the Downtown art world and the Downtown music scene.
Off the Beaten Path: Archiving the Creative Process in Late-20th-Century Art
In the 2006 Fales Lecture, John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, will examine the powerful roles played by artists’ archives in recovering and representing developments in late-20th-century film and video art.
Creating the Archive: When Experience Becomes History
This forum will explore the process by which lived experience and eyewitness reports are transformed into historical data—in museums, archives, scholarship, and the classroom.
No Alternative: New Downtown Art
Panelists in this discussion will reflect on the legacy of Downtown art. Performance, punk, feminism, and queer activism are among the current concerns of the young artists and organizers taking part.
Downtown: Revisiting the Birthplace of the Artistic Counterculture
Join Marvin J. Taylor, editor of The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984 and Director, Fales Library, and Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, and a contributor to the book, for a glimpse into New York’s artistic counterculture.
Cuentos de Loisaida: Latinos and the Downtown Scene
Please note: this program has been CANCELLED.
The Moving Edge: The Place of Downtown Art in New York City
How did geography and social movements matter? And now that things have gone the other way, what is the legacy of cheap rents, street grit, and all that impertinence? A panel of urban analysts—including several veterans of the Downtown scene—will address these issues and more.
Readings from “The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984”
To celebrate publication of The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, contributors will read selections and discuss the scene.
Raw Television: Grassroots Video Activism in New York City, 1970–1980
This panel discussion explores the roots and creative influences of this home-grown medium.
Gallery Talk: The Downtown Show
With Carlo McCormick, Guest Curator of The Downtown Show and Senior Editor, Paper Magazine; and Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery.